Platform Engineer (Defense)
Airspace Intelligence Com · Virgina, US
About this role
## About ASI ASI’s mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure domains. Backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners, ASI delivers operational decision superiority—compressing days of analysis into seconds of action. ## What You Will Do As a **Platform Engineer (Defense)** on the defense engineering team, you will design, build, and run **Kubernetes clusters on bare metal** from the ground up. You will own the platform end-to-end, including: - **Hardware bring-up** - **Cluster lifecycle** - **Day-2 operations** - **Security hardening** - **Accreditation support** You’ll work closely with development and product teams to ensure mission software is delivered. ## What We Value - Bringing up bare-metal hardware from the rack, including **out-of-band management** (BMC, IPMI, Redfish) and **automated OS provisioning** - Building and running **production Kubernetes on bare metal** from scratch (cluster lifecycle, upgrades, operators, networking, storage, ingress) - Automating infrastructure as code with **Ansible** and **Terraform/OpenTofu** - Building **CI/CD pipelines** (Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI) that deliver software into **disconnected environments** - Running platforms in production: **monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and runbooks** - Working with network and security teams to bring external data sources onto the platform (firewall rules, cross-domain transfers, data feed connectivity) - Strong grounding in **Linux systems administration, networking, and security** - Hardening and accrediting systems to **NIST** and **RMF** standards in restricted, disconnected, or classified environments - Clearly explaining technical and mission concepts to partners and customers - Collaborating effectively with operations and development teams across locations ## Requirements - **Active TS/SCI clearance** - Bachelor’s degree and **5+ years** in platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure, or related field - **DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce certification** for privileged users (e.g., **Security+ CE**) - Willing to work **onsite in Virginia 50%** of the time and provide **on-call support** during designated surge events ## How We Hire We view the interview process as an opportunity to simulate what it’s like to work together. We build the interview process around you. ## Additional Notes ASI works with **export-controlled technology** and **restricted U.S. Government data**, including contracts that may require U.S. immigration status and location restrictions for performing personnel. Employment offers are contingent on the ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for the job duties.
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